Sunday, July 12, 2009

Email forwarding to a single account

I hope most of you know about the option of forwarding all your mails to a single account so that you keep track of all your mail ids without logging into each account

If so, this post is not for you.

You can automatically forward a mail from any of your account to another. These are the steps.

For gmail users:

1. Click the settings tab on right hand side of your mail page top.
2. There you will find 'Forwarding and POP/IMAP' tab.
3. Select the 'Forward a copy of incoming mail to..' radio button and enter the mail id which you check regularly.
4. It is better to select 'Keep ____ mail's copy in inbox'

For yahoomail users:

Instead of 'settings', you will have 'options' tab and instead of 'Forwarding and POP/IMAP', here it is 'POP and forwarding' :)
One more thing i observed is that a copy of your mail will not be kept in yahoo account unlike gmail. It will be moved to the ID which u r forwarding to.

I haven't tried with other mail service providers.

I will be happy if atleast one get educated by this mail.

Technology experts can add more if i have missed any or please correct me if i had gone somewhere.

5 comments:

Narayanan said...

Ther r a lot of thing in gmail n gchat v can do.. i like to share some, If it helps someone, i ll b happy..

1.Use of "Undisclosed mail recipients" to maintain privacy n secrecy while mailing many people.

2.Use of vacational responders to create a automated server like response

3.y.e.snarayanan@gmail.com is same as yes.narayanan@gmail.com ..i.e dots can b placed anywhere n even as many time u wish in between letters. but the recipient is going to b same yesnarayanan@gmail.com only

4.many of us dont use offline gmail option but it proves handy 4 me at times.

5.n to insert image in a compose mail .u can use google docs and paste d image frm ther

6.also check the "Last account activity" frequently to detect any intruders. its the easiest way, if u know ur ip and last login time.

n more...

Karthik.R said...

Thanks for the reply Narayan.

It was surprising to see 3rd point. "dots can b placed anywhere" how?? what if some one has created a mail as 'yesnar.ayanan@gmail.com' and i mail him. still it considers only as 'yes.narayanan@gmail.com' ?? think i didn't understand.

Yeah offline gmail is too good. i am using it.

Narayanan said...

no..thats y mail ids r used as unique feature ..google doesnt allow any other combination of yesnarayanan with any dots to b created
till the order of word gets chanced..try with urs too..

even if u have no dots,while creatin ur mail id.

try with dots n send urself.

infact my mail id is yesnarayanan@gmail.com. but 4 some i give as yes.narayanan@gmail.com. :)

Narayanan said...

want to use multiple gtalk programs running with multiple accounts at same time ?

right click on the properties of the shortcut icon of gtalk

change the target as
"C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex

i.e add /nomutex to existing path

n u can start nutting with different accounts at the same time :)

Karthik.R said...

Oh man!

You have done some great research on google applications :)

You have added value to my blog :)